It is easy to get lost in the weeds if you don’t follow the details closely; however, last night James Clapper appeared on CNN to defend himself against mounting evidence he leaked, and falsified the content of a presidential briefing of an Intelligence Discussion -including the “Steele Dossier”- to CNN January 9th or 10th 2017. [Full Recent Backstory]

Before getting to the CNN/James Clapper video, it’s important to revisit the specific sequence of events. It is difficult to spot lies if you don’t have events to reference. Here’s a recap of the exact timeline of events from 2017:

♦Friday January 6th – DNI James Clapper, CIA John Brennan, FBI James Comey and NSA Mike Rogers briefed President-Elect Trump on their Joint Analysis Report of the Russian Election interference. (link) [POTUS-Elect released a statement]
♦Tuesday January 10th – CNN runs an explosive story (Jake Tapper) and article about Intelligence Officials briefing President Trump about the Steele Dossier. (link)
♦Tuesday January 10th – (Moments later) At 5:20pm Buzzfeed uses the CNN story as an excuse to publish the Steele Dossier.
♦Wednesday January 11th – The Trump transition team states the content of the CNN story [claiming President-Elect Trump was briefed on the Dossier] was false.
♦Wednesday January 11th – (same day) President Trump blasts CNN for pushing “fake news” about their story; P-Elect saying he was not briefed on the “dossier”.
♦Wednesday January 11th – (same day) NBC independently refutes the content of the prior day CNN story. Trump wasn’t briefed on dossier the Friday prior. (link)
♦Wednesday January 11th – (same day) FOX News independently refutes the content of the prior day CNN story. Again, Trump wasn’t briefed on dossier. (link)
♦Wednesday January 11th – (same day – EVENING) DNI James Clapper puts out a press release and affirms he only told the President-elect of the IC position on the Steele Dossier moments before. (January 11th – NOT January 6th) (link)

That’s the cited sequence of events, and the copy of the Press Statement by ODNI James Clapper for verification [Archived Link Here] Pay close attention to the wording above.

Recapping: On Tuesday January 10th, 2017, CNN stated President-Elect Trump was briefed on the dossier. An hour later Buzzfeed was publishing the dossier. The next day, Wednesday January 11th, President Trump said he was not briefed on the dossier. NBC confirmed Trump wasn’t briefed. Fox News confirmed Trump wasn’t briefed. Later that night, again Wednesday January 11th, DNI James Clapper notes in his statement he just briefed the President-elect on the dossier moments before.

Now, here’s James Clapper last night (March 12th, 2018) talking to CNN’s Don Lemon. It is important to pay attention to the details of this denial and the transparent motive behind why Clapper would try to cloud the events. Here’s the Clapper Interview:

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The two things you’ll immediately note are that Clapper has the dates wrong, likely intentionally wrong, and Clapper is intentionally misleading on the sequence.

Clapper stated to Don Lemon POTUS-Elect Trump blasted the media on January 10th prior to the CNN/Buzzfeed story. This is false. The Trump Media “Nazi” Press Conference was Wednesday January 11th, the day AFTER the CNN story ran and Buzzfeed put out the dossier. For a reminder Watch:

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Is Clapper “lying” or is he “intentionally misleading”, your choice on the definition.

However, given the nature of his adverse relationship with the truth -and Clapper’s motive to lower his risk as an identified intelligence leaker- he no longer gets the benefit of the doubt. James Clapper is intentionally lying.

Lastly, and very importantly; please look closely at the highlighted sentence within this January 11th, 2017, James Clapper press release:

Note: “The IC has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable”.

This was January 11th, 2017. How does that statement from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper square with the Intelligence Community using that “document”, the “Steele Dossier”, to the FISA Court three months prior, on October 26th, 2016, to obtain a FISA Title-1 surveillance warrant?

If the IC had not found the information in the document reliable by January 11th 2017, then what the heck were they doing using it for a FISA warrant in October 2016?

This is probably the single most important (and clear-cut) piece of evidence that proves the DOJ and FBI were falsifying the validity of the Steele Dossier to the FISA Court.

mimbler, I agree with your last statement.
I am not sure I understand the right v/s left argument since personally I do not categorize my thoughts in right v/s left – it is either something is right or wrong for any given situation. There is no in-between.

Tomato, Tomatoe. The left’s response is nearly always wrong, so someone who thinks that way is more likely to do the wrong thing.
Left and Right are philosophy’s that are acted on.
Just like something is right or wrong regardless of whether you are a criminal or not, but I wouldn’t hire a criminal as a babysitter.

Nowadays, I tend to categorize, “Is this globalist malarky?” or “Is this supporting Trumps’ agenda?” or “Is this in line with our constitution?” Depending upon the answer, you can be pretty sure if the person is a Leftie Dem or RINO.

Right vs. wrong…right is right, left is wrong…simple. My thoughts are always categorized either right or wrong and mine being right, is right. I never think in terms of left as it borders on communism.

I believe PDJT needed a more “balanced”, shall we say, approach to his Cabinet and other staffing picks. Now that we are a little more than one year in, he can start moving people around that are more in-line with his vision to MAGA.

That is why he is President and we are not. I would have had a tendency starting out to installing everyone with my ideological viewpoint (regardless of their other qualifications) from the get-go.

Tillerson’s ego is galactic in size; ask anyone who knew of him at Exxon Mobil. He has slow-walked the reorganization of the State department and is currently pissed because he was not given a more prominent role in the NK negotiation. He was appointed primarily because his corporate success and alpha-dog persona appealed to the President, and it was a bad choice. Move on.

If he would have made more of an effort to clean up that part of the swamp, perhaps the President would have kept him on longer, despite the personality differences. We have heard of a lot of things going on elsewhere for reform, such as gutting absurd EPA regulations chocking businesses. However, i do not recall one thing Mr. Tillerson has done to revamp the State Dept.

Do you realize just how their lives are going to be changed and their reputations ruined if all this comes out in some kind of public hearing or, God willing, a public trial? I’m going to start with the assumption that these men considered themselves good public servants and patriots before losing their collective minds.

Remember their original intent was to beat Trump in the election. This alone was a major violation of the code of neutrality that is inherent in career public servants at this level. But to use the tools of the intelligence community and FBI including disinformation, leaking to the press, and surveillance of the opposing campaign is nothing but police state tactics.

They thought they would get away with it because Hillary would win. Now they are stuck with the very real possibility that their evil deeds will be revealed for a gross violation of both law and our Republic’s ethos. Won’t it be a blow to their egos when their pictures are removed from the halls of the agencies they disgraced.

The CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS of Clapper and many others are well documented and public information – yet all of it is meaningless if the gatekeepers of the swamp at the DOJ continue to
permanently OBSTRUCT JUSTICE.

Well – i omitted the congress from my comment because it has no”teeth” or legal authority…but i agree.

It’s a conspiracy of the highest order, that’s been occurring since governments and their business elite masters discovered that they could easily control the populace with propaganda and mind control – personally, i’d say it began with Holy Roman Empire and they’ve been perfecting it with the “rise of Western Civilization” ever since. Yet you and i would be marginalized and “fringed” in a second as “conspiracy nuts” for accurately identifying it.

You are right as far as Congress not having prosecutorial teeth. But I do believe they have enough muscle to force those with the teeth to act. The fact that they didn’t in that case makes it imperative that justice be done now.

We really need for Sessions to appoint a second special council.
That’s the only way to make sure that this nonsense doesn’t happen again.
Until we get a second special council I’m going to believe that Sessions is protecting Hillary and others.

The evidence uncovered by these investigations can be turned over to the prosecutors so they do not have to start from scratch. So what is the problem with that?

Sure, we have former prosecutors that are wondering what is going on. However, they are on the outside looking in. The 24/7/365 MSM is parading them in front of the cameras for ratings and they are happy to comply.

There must be a very good reason the “low hanging fruit” is not being plucked yet. If any of these former prosecutors know what it is because of their contacts, they are not “spilling the beans” to spoil the surprise.

“Nov. 13, 2017 letter to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-VA, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd told congressional members that the DOJ had appointed senior prosecutors who would report “directly to the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General, as appropriate, and will make recommendations as to whether any matters not currently under investigation should be opened, whether any matters currently under investigation, require further resources, or whether any matters merit the appointment of a Special Counsel.”

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
Propaganda-1928http://asset-4.soupcdn.com/asset/0324/0984_4ce7.pdf
~Edward Bernays/November 1891-March 1995

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth…
2 Timothy 3:1-7

I continually see people who are worried that time is running out and these criminals will get off scott-free.

So first the clock on the STATUTE of LIMITATIONS STOPS with an indictment.

[…]The phrase “statute of limitations” refers to the time period within which formal criminal charges must be brought after a crime has been committed…. Therefore, in most instances, prosecutions are barred if the defendant can show that there was no indictment or other formal charge filed within the time period dictated by the statute of limitations….

Second, since October of last year a YUGE number of SEALED indictments have been laid before the courts.
⚖️ In 22 days in November — 4,289 sealed indictments
⚖️ In the next month, December the number MORE THAN DOUBLED to over 9000, an increase of over 4,700.
⚖️ By January 28, 2018 there were 13,605 sealed indictments. Again an increase of over 4,600 in a month.
⚖️ And another treeper reported over 18,500 sealed cases were filed as of March 1.

My interpretation is that AG Sessions went after the small fry in November and December. ON December 21, President Trump issued the ‘Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption.’ In January Sessions went after the middlemen and NOW he is finally ready to go after the big guys.

see the comment below yours – what proof is there of any of this? propaganda released by government sources through swamp media outlets? and broadcast by their thug puppet surrogates of EVERY political persuasion? 23,000,000,000 “sealed indictments”, 375 “investigations”, 19 dimensional chess…

Ever notice the similarity between madison ave and the swamp propagandists/media? They both love to drop “numbers” – it reminds me of weight watchers…
“LOSE 37 pounds in 3 weeks for only 19 dollars and get 50 pounds of free food!!”

Not buying ANY of it – they’ve been at this for centuries…and people LOVE to buy it – LOVE to be TOLD what the deal is. That’s ANOTHER trend that i’ve noticed.The media is now brazenly and openly TELLING people what do believe – “ELEVEN things you NEED TO KNOW about broccoli” “Our experts TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW”

Prior the insanity of the last several years, they used to be more subtle – now they just TELL you lol.
It’s pretty sickening…

“…what proof is there of any of this? propaganda released by government sources through swamp media outlets? …”

It is from counts made by the autists on the chans with PACER accounts. It is from the Kids at Reddit with PACER accounts.

On Nov 26, 2017 it was from a tweet. — “For those of us keeping track, there are now 4,289 sealed federal indictments filed nationwide in less than a month. The national average per year is 250.”
In that tweet, 250 was then corrected to 1100 as the national average.
Go down in the stream and you see where the info comes from.“Beyond this link, you’d have to look them up in each federal court district independently. Docket info is public record” then points to StormWatcher who says, All back-up files are at: https://tinyurl.com/ya6gmh2u

In December it is from a Treeper, America First:
December 1, 2017 at 2:46 pm“Well, the sealed indictments are there. That is demonstrable fact for anyone who has a PACER account. And, no, the sheer volume of them is not a normal standard thing….”

If you want to do the count yourself, get a PACER ACCOUNT
(WWWDOT)pacer.gov/reg_pacer.html

Thanks for the link and of course I respect your opinion – it’s unconvincing to me, ‘though – not buying ANY of it:

AS IF: the government would never release false information
AS IF: the judiciary isn’t 100 percent corrupt and POLITICIZED
AS IF: the foul thug puppet media isn’t feeding you a false narrative 24/7/365 INCLUDING the massively censored and manipulated internet and dopey social media
AS IF: Public Records are never manipulated (see election results, FAKE NEWS, FAKE POLLS etc…)
kids on reddit with PACER accounts – sorry

even if the information regarding the number of SEALED indictments is true, it’s MEANINGLESS in regards to any political discussion of the corrupt to the core, SWAMP AG and DOJ….

IMO of course

look – what it really comes down to, is what you CHOOSE to believe – that’s all you or I have…neither one of us really knows anything for sure regarding “information” reported

IHC“There are also the many FBI raids taking place since January of this year. These raids so far have netted 4,474 arrests that includes those trafficking children and young adults into sex trade/slavery. Out of these nearly 2,000 were in California alone mostly in the LA area. During one it included local politicians and clergy among others in positions of power and names are sealed in court. The BGI rescued nearly 400 very children – some of them found kept in cages – as well as young teenagers forced into prostitution and their pimps.
The youngest child victims were two sisters – 5 months and 5 years old. Their price? It was $600.00! Don’t look for the media to report about these sweeps. Only local TV reports about these sweeps.
So yes even though it looks outside that Session is not doing much he is quietly cleaning up the messes of the Obama administration. That is no small feat!”

“Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces arrested 1,012 suspected child predators from more than 40 states during a two-month nationwide operation following the investigation of more than 69,000 cases, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announced today.

The arrests marked the end of Operation Broken Heart, a coordinated investigative operation to intensify efforts to identify and arrest suspected child sexual predators during April and May 2017.[…]” — Department of Justice

The fact that much of this news out of the DOJ is NEVER covered by the YSM makes me think this is true when coupled with President Trump’s EO Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption.

Even ONE would be a start. I believe we are being played, just like when Darrel Issa was hogging camera time for a half dozen years and nothing ever came of any of it. The evidence is there. What about Lerner at the IRS? why was she let go? Its not as if she is a main witness in any of the FICA stuff.

“A federal complaint was unsealed today charging Candace Marie Claiborne, 60, of Washington, D.C., and an employee of the U.S. Department of State, with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI, both felony offenses, for allegedly concealing numerous contacts that she had over a period of years with foreign intelligence agents….

“Candace Marie Claiborne is a U.S. State Department employee who possesses a Top Secret security clearance and allegedly failed to report her contacts with Chinese foreign intelligence agents who provided her with thousands of dollars of gifts and benefits,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General McCord. “Claiborne used her position and her access to sensitive diplomatic data for personal profit. Pursuing those who imperil our national security for personal gain will remain a key priority of the National Security Division.”

the foul, corrupt to the core AG and DOJ are going to investigate, indict, prosecute and convict THEMSELVES?? I think not

“What about Lerner at the IRS? why was she let go? Its not as if she is a main witness in any of the FICA stuff.”

and it’s not as if ANY of ACTUAL, publicly documented CRIMES of previous admins, OR hillary’s emails and the attempt to illegally steal the election from Trump, have ANYTHING TO DO WITH the “russian collusion investigation:”

It’s business as usual for the DOJ. You can accept as reality its disinterest regarding application of the rule of law to politicos, or embrace any of the pretzel logic theories assuring us that justice will be served. There is an abundance of evidence supporting the former observation, and little to none to encourage the latter.

dallasdan – reading your comment again, i wanted to tell you how perfectly you DISTILLED my thoughts, and those of many others.
The ability to do that is a quality I’ve always admired and coveted (unsuccessfully ;O)

If they are effectively doing their jobs then you and I won’t know much of what theyre up to. That is how the law is supposed to work. That is how prosecutions succeed. Beyond that, from a strategic standpoint if we know what’s going on then so does the enemy. Think back to Trumps refusal to give any hints about how he planned to annihilate ISIS. He said he’d tell us when the job was done. President Trumps team at the DOJ and FBI are taking the same approach when it comes to annihilating the Swamp. Thank God.

Lyin’ Liars Lie. It is what they do. I fully expect anything that comes out of his mouth or that of any other BHO admin member to be a lie. We saw it for 8 years. Who tho’t it would change when we booted them out? Really?!

It makes no difference. No one, I mean no one, will even consider prosecuting him. But the swamp via Mueller will charge the President with either obstruction or conspiracy to defraud just before the midterms, ala Cap Weinberger in the ‘92 presidential. Meanwhile, Hillary et al. go free.

Mueller is no dummy. He is holding back either, or both of the charges you mention for the right timing. He will charge in response to indictments from the DOJ or just before the election if Sessions does nothing. I think if indictments from Sessions are forthcoming, that Mueller should be fired at exactly the same moment. Then of course, they could just indict Mueller himself and kill two birds with one stone.

It’s astonishing how many commenters seem to have access to time machines. They all report authoritatively about future events. It’s also fascinating that these time travelling reporters are so confident that President Trump will be a failure in the end so we should just abandon all hope. “Hey guys, NOTHINGS GOING TO HAPPEN” they repeat over and over. Guess we should all just give up, quit caring and stay home on election day so the Democrats regain power since America is DOOMED. Lol. So many modern iterations of Tokyo Rose. Sad.

“No, I’m not going to give you a question. Don’t be rude… don’t be rude, DON’T BE RU- you are FAKE NEWS!”
-when I first watched this clip from last year, I could not believe what i was hearing. Petulant butt-hurt children getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to lie, cheat, construct and carry a narrative from centuries old European Banking families.
The good news is, Mr. Trump knows this. Today, I am smiling

We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When its said and done, we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us the dirty laundry
Kick ’em when they’re up, kick ’em when they’re down

“Dirty Laundry”, The Eagles (Yes, the ones left are annoying lib’s but they nailed Fake News in that song.)

True… most musicians are flaming libs!
Don wrote a verse just for FNC…
We got the bubble headed bleach blonde
comes on @ five
she can tell you ’bout the plane crash
with a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die
give us dirty laundry

That line is actually about an LA news woman when the Air Florida plane hit the Key Bridge in Washington DC. We were watching it on TV in our hotel room and commented on how cheerful the woman was reporting the disaster. Total disconnect. That song came out 6 months later and we knew exactly who Henley was talking about

“Petulant butt-hurt children getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to lie, cheat, fabricate, and carry a false narrative from centuries old currency manipulating and thieving European bankster families.”

I think the popcorn reference suits Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) better because he has been on TV ~275x now about “Russia”. James Clapper is the slower burn in the oven. Most of the public is not following close enough to the issue to catch all the lies.

Some might have the discernment to know something is “off”. but would not be able to give specific details to convince someone else.The great thing about this site is that if you save the “New Post” e-mail notices to a folder off of your e-mail “Inbox”, you can start to accumulate a “ready reference” to find things months later.

Over time Mr. Clapper is burning himself, even though his television appearances are not like testifying under oath. Either way, what is he going to say, “I go out on (CNN/MSNBC/etc.) and just tell them what they want to hear” to explain away this?

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

As Tony Schaefer described Clapper’s face, while apprising him of an ongoing matter, “deer caught in the headlights” was Clappers response. He was inept at his former job, security isn’t his forte when he can’t remember the case. His responses are unqualified & I dismiss them .

Yes, great analogy (I have three pressure cookers that use gaskets, saving up for a fourth that does not).
Once that happens, it needs a NEW gasket. The old one is not redeemable.
Plus, there is a potential for a big mess on your stove.

I was just reading that article. I liked Tillerson in many ways but there were times he did not stand with President Trump.
I was concerned for him when it was reported that he was feeling sick and did not work on Saturday. This explains why.

I thought all along, when Trump came into office he had little or no inside government connections. (reading this post today takes us back to the transition and you can see why he had to be suspicious.) He was forced out of necessity to have carry overs that acted like they were supportive. But I do think he brought in many from outside (that were from his business world that he knew he could trust.) As well as Jared and Ivanka. Now that he has had a year to shake some of this out, time to get in some good people that know the system, but also supportive of the President. Pompeo is a good guy. I also wish T-Rex well. That is a horrid job with little life of your own and are never home. Im surprised anyone can be SoS for 4 years. Now they are questioning that Pompeo will have to go through senate confirmation. Look for the Dems to rake him over the coals. grrr.

Punctuation is your friend. Or not. Thanks for the comment, Teresa. Now I see why you guys are thumping me. Comment was supposed to be, wake up Sundance. As in, go get the big guy, stuff is happening. Some sort of autocorrect put a comma in there. So it reads, get moving slacker. Not my intention at all.

“according to government sources Clapper, who is not mentioned in the report released Monday, had spoken to CNN at roughly the same time Jake Tapper broke the first story regarding the briefings conducted by senior intelligence officials with Trump and Obama on the dossier.”
It would be interesting if the government sources fingering Clapper used the SAME collection of communication metadata to trace the connections between Clapper and CNN that has been used on multiple Trump officials, except (maybe?) legally.

I try to avoid the MSM, but I’ve been hearing some kind of nattering about Lesley Stahl and some sort of takedown or expose of Betsy DeVos.
I do not care for Betsy myself, I wish the whole failed Jimmy Carter Education Department had been dumped, but THIS is the job of 60 Minutes?
All this going on, this spying on America, this corruption and plotting by an unelected, shadow entity, and they are targeting BETSY DEVOS?
Come on!
If they aren’t going to to their jobs, these fossilized hags need to just go away. How on earth do they live with themselves?
Does Lesley really think it’s her mission to be a political operative? These people are supposed to be investigative reporters. They won’t investigate!
These people sold out their own grandchildren.
I can see how some of them (the senior division of the MSM) may have been ‘turned’, but every last one of them?
If they aren’t working against the Deep State corruption, at this point, they are working FOR the Deep State.
They CAN’T not know this.
Are they such cowards?

60 minutes–I happened to watch this fiasco. Stahl went after her pretty hard, interrupting, putting out her own set of facts. A real attack job–far away from her usual soft touch with some leftist puke–where she sits back and goes “Really! Wow!” like she’s just heard the most amazing thing. Betsy deserves credit for being very unflappable. She hung in there

“[…] The task force included the FBI, the Treasury and Justice Departments, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the National Security Agency (NSA).

It was set up after the director of the CIA, John Brennan, received a recording of a conversation about money from the Kremlin going into Trump’s campaign coffers, the BBC’s Paul Wood reported. The recording was apparently passed to the CIA by the intelligence agency of one of the Baltic States.

On October 15, the task force was reportedly granted a warrant by a judge in the FISA court — named after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — to intercept the electronic records from two Russian banks that may have been implicated in the money transfer, a senior intelligence official told the BBC. Trump was not named in the warrant, but three of his associates were the subject of the inquiry.[…]”

Apr. 13, 2017“[…]Brennan reportedly established a counterintelligence task force, which included the FBI and the National Security Agency. That summer, Robert Hannigan, then the chief of the GCHQ, passed Brennan more material related to conversations Trump associates had with suspected or known Russian agents,[…]” — http://www.businessinsider.com/british-spy-agency-trump-russia-ties-2017-4

May 23, 2017“[…]Trump fired Comey earlier this month, just over nine months into the FBI’s probe of Russia’s hacking and disinformation campaigns that targeted Democrats during the election. That probe began in earnest when Robert Hannigan, then the chief of Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, passed Brennan material related to conversations Trump associates had with suspected or known Russian agents in late 2015 and early 2016,….
Brennan was so concerned about the intercepted communications that he established a counterintelligence task force, which included the FBI and the National Security Agency. (Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified earlier this month that those communications had been picked up and handed over to US agencies, but he could not elaborate due to the “sensitive” nature of the intelligence.)[…]” — http://www.businessinsider.com/john-brennan-russia-trump-collusion-testimony-2017-5
………….

***Natasha Bertrand

Before joining Business Insider, Natasha worked at a political think tank in Madrid, Spain, researching EU relations with the Middle East and North Africa. Later, she served as the CSR intern at the oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues in London, focusing on human rights and sustainable development.

She is an alumna of Vassar College and the London School of Economics.

Hannigan abruptly resigned on Jan. 23, 2017.

This was three days after Trump’s inauguration and shortly after the first allegations that former MI6 agent Christopher Steele was involved in the pee-pee dossier thanks to the Buzzfeed article on January 10, 2017. The real question is why Robert Hannigan GCHQ would be meeting with John Brennan (CIA) since Hannigan counterpart in the USA at the time was Admiral Mike Rogers of NSA and NOT Brennan.

One thing I’ve wondered: was there a plan to peg “Russian Collusion” on whomever was to be the republican nominee? After all, best deflection is to accuse them of what you’re guilty of, right? And the entire IC must have known that of all the CF criminality most likely to surface, U1/Russian-reset was a prime possibility and one risking significant exposure not just for the Clintons but for the IC as well. The thing is it’s hard to imagine back in 2015 the CIA director was running around setting up task forces on Donald Trump . . .unless it was part of a larger ground-setting operation to run this play on whomever in the republican field they needed to . . .

T-Rex did the job he was hired to do. He toss out a lot of State Dept deadwood and he got the Saudis and the rest of the Middle East to the table for President Trump’s magnificent solution to the ISIS problem.

President Trump is used to hiring people for a specific job. When it is done, he moves on. The DemonRats call it chaos, I call it very efficient.

If 2018 comes and GOES.. it may be too late. The midterms could be very critical in determining how far this can go. It will be amazing how fast these facts will be shut down if the Dems get control of anything. They already are doing a pretty good job of creating chaos and making it look like all the wrongs are on the Trump side. No matter the truth being exposed. The lies have embedded.

I noted on previous post about the spring primary season. 3/6 is Texas, 3/20 is Illinois. No primaries in April (tax season). May/June have 29 primaries. Then none in July/August. I think March/April are the time for action to be effective in primaries. Once primaries start, MSM will suck the Oxygen from the room for 2 months. Every Tuesday for 2 months talking about GOP lackluster and DIM energized, regardless of facts on the ground.

March/April are the time for action……one ping only (or more if you feel frisky). Once primary season and summer begin, things fly to the November election. Below is the federal gov’t primary season schedule. Regardless of desires and hopes and “we must be patient”, March/April are the months for action. And lets not forget Pennsylvania 18th special election today. Will we have another “Alabama feed the narrative” result? Waiting, patiently waiting.

Obfuscation and delay are proven, successful strategies for the opposition. Moreover, if a case gets to trial, there will always be at least one progressive on the jury to scuttle a guilty verdict. Hopes for the full weight of a once objective justice system punishing the criminal perpetrators are overly optimistic or misplaced.

I am sorry. I can’t see the difference between smart slowness and corruption. Clapper already skated on baldfaced lying to congress by slowness.

I don’t believe anyone in the FBI or DOJ until irons are clamped on the treasonous felons. I have run out of trust. I started out believing in Sessions, then moved to the fence, now I have abandoned the fence altogether. Maybe Clapper skating was my straw.

I have zero faith in justice in this country, Zero. Justice has been corrupted, and I have seen no change of substance… that I believe in.

To put it simply, short of real indictments of top bureaucrats and their bosses on serious crimes, of the whole rotten bunch, in front of judges that are not bent into Socialist American hating pretzels, with aired, declassified documents. Until the whole rotten treasonous stench is aired and properly dealt with, Justice in this country will be mortally wounded.

No justice, no republic, Socialists win. God have mercy on them and their placaters… or not.

I have to agree. You’d be a fool not to, but I’m sticking with the Trump Administration in the hopes Sessions comes good. It’s not so much faith in the system as it is I don’t see any alternatives. Without the law and the republic it’s every man for himself. I’ve been there before and am hoping for better for my children and grandchildren.

Is it not resonsible to expect, that if a lower level official, like Clapper is not held accountable for their actions. Then we can not expect, all American citizens to be treated equally under the law?

If the above is true, then all of our elected officials must voted out of office. And, replaced by those seeking equal justice.

Elsewhere, in Zerohedge we are reminded that TODAY the statute of limitations expires on the perjery he committed when lying to Congress about NSA collecting data on US citizens. What excellent timing to have more, less debatable, crimes uncovered. I wonder if he’ll get to skate on these crimes as well.

It seems the press release is meant to IMPLY he only briefed the president-elect that night (Jan. 11) but it doesn’t EXPRESSLY say that, does it? Clapper says that this evening he “had the opportunity to discuss” the recent media reports and the briefing on Friday; next paragraph it says “we also discussed the private security company document . . . “. It seems to imply, but does not claim, that this was the FIRST time they discussed the dossier.

Basically this press release seems to preserve plausible deniability on precisely when (and whether) the IC community generally (and Clapper in particular) provided or summarized the dossier to Trump. What precisely am I missing that would preclude Clapper from claiming that the statement does not substantiate exactly when he or the IC FIRST talked to Trump about the dossier? (for the record, I don’t doubt the thesis here, just am not seeing how the press release provides the critical piece to the puzzle . . .)

Without an evidence-worthy recording or transcript, Clapper and Obama can say anything about the content of the conversation and go unchallenged. Clapper’s perjury before Congress, however, is air-tight and is gift-wrapped with his admission of guilt. Nevertheless, he walks away without being charged and prosecuted. Thanks, Jeff.

Yesterday, when Tillerson blamed the poisoning of the two Russians directly on the Russian government it seemed like the last straw. Why would Tillerson by making this statement want to box the President into surely having to increase sanctions on Russia? The poisoning info was from British intelligence which is probably highly unreliable and often tied to our own deep state. I c really feel this was just another example of Tillerson shooting his mouth off. He had to be fired.

It seems that the US had control of a Uzbekistan plant that produced this very poison since the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Given the Clinton connections with that part of the slime universe, and the possible connection between the Russian spy and Steele/Clinton, I’m not so sure pinning this on the Russians is going to be either successful or accurate.

This also seems to have been a rather clumsy assassination attempt, compared to Russia’s last such successful venture. Perhaps would tend to point more towards those players who stumble and f-up a lot.

Who would have the most to gain from poisoning Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia?
Mr. Skripal worked with MI6 agent Christopher Steele for many years. Was the Russian agent a source for the Unverfied Dossier? We know from Fusion GPS bank records the Clinton Campaign and the DNC funded the Dossier using the Perkins Coie law firm. Fusion GPS paid Christopher Steele. Christopher Steele worked closely with the Obama FBI. He said he did not want Donald Trump to become President.
We know that Bruce Ohr #4 man in the DOJ was in contact with with Fusion founder Glenn Simpson before and after the 2016 Presidential Election and his wife Nellie Ohr a Russia expert worked for Fusion .
Another fact that would support non Russian involvement in the poisoning of the Skripals is that former British GCHQ head Robert Hannigan was in close contact with Obama CIA chief John Brennan. Mr. Hannigan resigned suddenly from GCHQ on January 23, 2017 after President Trump’s was sworn into office.
Is the plot to nullify our election exposing too many insiders?

You are absolutely right. There is a strong anti-Russian bias in the British Establishment and the British MSM. It’s a bit odd when you think about it, since most of our ex-spies turn out to have been working with the Russians during their tenure so maybe they are just old bluffers. Either way whatever our intelligence services say (especially after Iraq) I wouldn’t trust a word of it. Craig Murray of course (from the link below) is the almost certainly the go-between Seth Rich and Julian Assange. Funnily enough Mueller hasn’t bothered to interview either of them. I wonder why that is?

This entire operation by the spooks against Trump is right out of the CIA playbook for psyops, and it utilizes many of the psyops operations exposed and consolidated for the first time by Ashton Gray, including, but not limited to:

• The manipulation of time:
“When presented, as in Watergate, with multiple seemingly consistent but actually time-contradictory accounts and stories from multiple sources—each of which purports to be ‘fact’—the perceiver’s mind can, and will, subconsciously create parallel time streams. Consider a railroad track suddenly splitting off into four or six different tracks, each regulated with a different clock, those then merging again somehow at the commonalities, with common time, then splitting again, and so on. … CIA ops commonly leave out any definite date for a described event, or give a ‘date’ that might be months or even a year or more off. Several instances have been found, by comparison to other sources, of the wrong year being given when the month and day are correct. Another psyop is to give a wrong sequence of events, especially when coupled with lack of any actual date.”

The excerpt from Gray’s book that details these psyops is called “The CIA Psyops of Watergate and Beyond,” and is freely available here:

He isn’t credible. He isn’t even legitimate. His obvious conflicts of interest disqualify him by law as does his charge, or investigation. The law stipulates there must be a crime and collusion is not a crime.

I must have missed my meds this morning because it seems like a lot of today’s commentators are slamming Sundance and “our cause”. Perhaps these people are new to TCTH and don’t know the pecking order of clinging to the bark on the trunk before working your way up to a twig or a branch to hang on to. Safe perches are earned and coveted – you just can’t claim one. I’m still like moss on the trunk, but its not a bad place to be!

I’ve followed SD for a long time, and truly respect his work. But the lack of charges is telling, when even the publicly available info is sufficient to charge and convict Hillary, Huma, Comey, and others. Some charges must be filed NOW because there’s an active coup attempt in the country, and the primary goal must be to stop it. If a few bad guys get away because the charges were filed a little too early, then that’s the price that must be paid. I am left to conclude that these delays are just to hide/destroy/falsify evidence, to change their stories, and to let the statue of limitations run out. I’m sorry if you don’t like it, but nothing justifies further delays. The coup must be shut down now.

I see your point and who wouldn’t? Who couldn’t? I wake up every morning hoping today is the day. I don’t know how much longer I can hold my breath, but it is my intention to believe in and serve this republic, keeping the faith with this Administration and AG Sessions until I turn blue and fall over dead.

I like to think that this is where I have been stationed. The truth is simply that this is where I find myself and, it is here that I am determined to remain constant and steadfast until the very end, taking notice of nothing, not inclement weather, nor deprivation, neither fear, nor death, as, if to quote the poet, “That I not come to a dishonored grave.”

The beauty and goodness of this site are sustained by the candid and honest exchange of opinions by reasonable, respectful people. There are several points on which opinion has become polarized, and that is not innately bad.

When the curtain falls on this Shakespearean-worthy tragedy, numerous people will have to accept that they were dead wrong in their emphatic assertions and their personal attacks on those with differing opinions.

I suggest the debates continue and we, collectively, synthesize and assimilate the truth as best it can be determined in the midst of the confusion and conflicting signals.

Thank you, Dan. I further suggest more level-headed wisdom of the sort you have just offered us. This is indeed a special place with great people. Acrimony should be a stranger here. Our comportment needs to relect our committment to the discovery of truth and the furtherance of justice, with a large helping of comity.

Very well written and except for the evaluation of the article itself, entirely wrong. Where have you been for the last 45 years? The Clinton/Obama Democrats don’t recognize fact as having any special relevance. It either advances their agenda, or it doesn’t. They are more than amoral. They don’t even recognize reality itself as an impediment.

If you think they are capable of recognizing, synthesizing, or assimilating anything that doesn’t advance their agenda which is always obtaining power than you are as much a part of the problem as they are. This isn’t any live fire exercise as much it is enemy action and the very republic is in harm’s way.

So Fusion GPS if a “private security company”? Did Clapper brief any members of Congress that they were getting information from a “private security company”? Cause that makes one think in an entirely different direction about the source.

Same thing caught my attention. At some point, the manifestly inaccurate and wildly contradictory statements from the highest levels of the last administration must be considered to *matter.* How can those even pretending to report this story keep overlooking that, from the moment this broke in 1/17, the director of the FBI (Comey), the director of the CIA (Brennan), and the ODNI (Clapper) feigned ignorance about the defamatory dossier in order to react with bewilderment at how the dossier came to be circulating throughout DC and spoon-fed to “journalists;” in order to surreptitiously inflate the dossier’s implied credibility with offhand, nonsense descriptions like “private security company” when they knew better; and in order to justify briefing the president and president-elect on a tabloid hit-piece, under the guise of “letting them know it’s out there.” Juxtaposing these odd actions and statements to what we now know they knew — there’s nowhere to hide. And yet they do, in plain sight, with paid appearances and smug interviews. It’s like we’re living in Memento.

Why would anyone believe anything Clapper says…he lies freely about everything…frightening that he was in a position of authority…actually, everyone in Obama’s administration, including himself, is/was a practiced liar.

The Deep State and Institutional cohorts ventured into uncharted terrain pressing their attack into the post-election phase, interregnum and active presidency (or for conspiracy enthusiasts maybe no so unprecedented if JFK is included in the mix). Campaign dirty tricks (with full establishment/intelligence agency support) morphs into a coup. This is a huge escalation. They thought they could handle him even with a key coup dissident, NSA’s Rogers, on board. Big mistake. QAnon has to emanating out of the Rogers circle (or maybe Flynn’s DIA), but there’s a military imprimatur.

Trump is a brilliant counter-puncher. He telegraphs Fred Flinstone blowhard. But his bluster is always a well-devised trap that the smarty-pants can’t resist throwing a fast punch at. Even Bannon so-called confidante (and self-described political ‘mentor’) thought he had the measure of his ‘protege’. Bannon was a classic smarty-pants eaten up with hubris and self-delusion.

Trump has Reagan’s natural instincts but augmented with a Manhattan developer’s barracuda smile. I was always a Trump supporter because I felt a the country desperately needed a business perspective as opposed to just another lawyerly get-along artist. Attorneys never really move the ball forward. They just take bites out of what’s already there. It’s been a revelation and a pleasure watching Trump maneuver. More of it, Sir.

What’s really telling here is how Trump refers to Michael Cohen and the fact he wasn’t out of the country in 2016 and certainly not in Prague in August 2016, where the Dossier has him conspiring with the creme de la creme of the Putin set. This is never spoken about , not by CNN not by Adam Schiff not by any of the liars out there who simply want to dissemble and sow discord. It would have taken the FBI 2 minutes to ring up Cohen and ask him to let them in on up to his office so they could also check his passport.They never did this of course. Neither has Mueller. Which begs the question. Have Mueller or Schiff ever even bothered to read the Dossier? I think I know the answer to that one.

Clapper was guilty of perjury; was not charged; and the Statute of Limitations ran yesterday.

Yet, I hold out a vague hope that Washington D. C. is not the Sewage Lagoon it now appears to be….based on the tenuous thread provided by criminals: Strzok, Page and Ohr.

It is so obvious that all three should have been unceremoniously FIRED (and their precious Pensions taken away)…and it is almost as obvious that all three should have already been INDICTED…that they must be, as Sundance has said, Cooperating (Singing)….and will be Fired later. And also Indicted later….unless they can deliver some bigger fish.

They get fired…and go to jail, or give up Comey, McCabe, maybe Clapper, Brennan etc.—or this country has no hope of recovering from Obama’s Comprehensive Corruption of the Justice Department and its subsidiaries.

There are many people could have leaked this info to CN&N. But Clapper has lied in the CN&N clip today (yesterday).

25 Oct 2017, Clapper was telling the same story as Clapper’s 11 Jan 2017 statement. Four months later, the story changes.

From PBS’ The Putin Files James Clapper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWLF5pmPF24
Re: the 6 Jan 2017 briefing at Trump Tower –
39:43
Clapper – “The then-President-Elect was affable, courteous, even complimentary, of the presentation…He paid attention and , he and his team asked, pretty good questions. There was no pushback.”

40:20
Q – “But on the January 11th press conference that Trump gives soon after…”
40:50
Clapper – “In his news conference on January 11, in which he likened the Intelligence Community to Nazis…that’s what occasioned my calling him, about that, about the reference.”

43:05
Clapper – “He did bring that (the dossier) up when I called him, and wanted me to put out a statement rebutting it, which I, I couldn’t do, I couldn’t affirm it or deny it. And the point was, in briefing him about it, was, was to inform him of it’s existence. We felt a duty to warn, if you will, just so that he knew that it was out there. A lot of people in the media already had it, at least two members of Congress had it. I learned about it very, rather belatedly. It was after, not long after we began to work on the Intelligence Community Assessment was when I first learned of it.”

Clapper lies consistently. That much is certain.
There are only a couple ways the leaks could be conclusively attributed to one leaker. One gives away sources and methods.

But, Pres Trump has already told us how we, and they, know for certain who is the leaker –
“The leaks are real, the news is fake.”
Iow, Black Hat Hunting. Simple. Thank you, Gen Flynn.

It appears Mr. Clapper drew the short straw. Brennan (the commie) should be the target IMHO. The Balkans were prime for manipulation by Farkus and Brennan which is mentioned as a point of access for the muh Russia intel.